EU Commission: first DMA gatekeeper designations antitrust case

Decision

Regulator

ECEuropean Commission

acted against

Against

AlphabetAmazonAppleByteDanceMetaMicrosoft

The first designation decisions under the Digital Markets Act gave six companies six months to comply with the DMA obligations for their core platform services.

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